Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 use sugar molecules to hide from the immune system, but scientists at Scripps Research have designed ...

It's been five years since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. As SARS-CoV-2 shifts to endemic status, questions about ...

Early animal studies show that a single vaccine could protect the recipient from different variants of the coronaviruses that ...

Small-molecule inhibitors targeting viral proteins could serve as an effective alternative for controlling the spread of COVID-19 at both individual and community levels. In this vein, a recent study ...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, infects cells by binding its spike protein ... However, mutations in the spike protein can alter its structure, reducing the effectiveness of these ...

such as those for the spike protein, inserting the blueprints into DNA, RNA or a safe virus and injecting those into people. The Remarkable and Mysterious Coronavirus Genome The SARS-CoV-2 genome ...

The spike protein of the coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2 ... “We simulated the electronic structure of the two interacting molecules and assessed how amino acids of the spike and ACE2 interacted with their ...

For more coverage about the pandemic, visit our coronavirus ... protein shell. The virus is named for the iconic spikes that project from its center like a crown, or “corona” in Latin. These s ...

As demonstrated in animal studies, the vaccine removed sugar molecules from an area of a coronavirus spike protein that rarely mutates and created effective and plentiful antibodies to inactivate ...